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Ants That Bury The Dead

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
May
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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It bas been discovered that thère aro some antó" which actually bury their dead. Kccoutly a lady liad been obliged to kill some ants, the bodies of which lay about on the ground. Presently a Ringle ant found its dead companions, and examined them and theu went off. j Dircctly it returned with a nnmber of: others sind proeeeded to the dead bodies. Four ante went to each corpse, two lifting it and the other two followiug, the mam body, some two hnudred in mimbor, followiag behind. The fonr boarers ( iok tlicir office in turns, one pair relieving the other when they were tired. '1'li.v went straight to a sandy hillock, i and thrrc the bearers put down their bnxdens, and the others immediately fctegiin to dig holes. A dead ant was then placed in each grave, and the soil lilled in. The most eurious part of the proceeding was that somo six or seven ants refnsed to seint in gmve-digging; upon which the rest set on them, killed them, dng one large hole, nnd tumbled them üBceremoniously into it. Gen. 1'ekkins, of Kentucky, a ranting demagogue was once canvassing that State wil h Tom. Marshall in a hotly contestéa election. He was boaMing ene day t!i:it bis father was a oooper, that hé didn't belong to the kid-glove arintocraoy, etc His great foüdneaB was fol whisky, and the more he drank the 1 prouder he became of being the non of a oooper. Marshall, in replyiug to one of Perïins' speeches, eaid: " l'Vllow citizeuN, this inan's father niay have been ;i rry good cooper, I don't deny that, bui l do say gentleman, that he put a mighty poor hcad into that wliisky barrel.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus